[meteorite-list] Triangulation

From: al mitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:08:17 -0400
Message-ID: <C003FB99384D43F29A3FCFC951DC4D72_at_StarmanPC>

Greetings,

Harvey Nininger who witnessed the November 9th 1923 super bright meteor fall
at McPherson, College, made his eye witness notes and went on to contact
newspapers, witnesses on each side of the fall. While this particular use of
triangulation did not yield the actual meteorite from the fall withnessed,
it did result in several other meteorites being found.

Harvey used this method many times. He used it with the Norton County fall I
believe and was able to locate that meteorite with triangulation. He was
standing on the meteorite in it's pit when Lincoln Lapaz and his group
walked over to the site.

I'll have to look up and try to put together various meteorites that
Nininger found using this method.
Best!

--AL Mitterling


----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Ross" <doug at dougross.net>
To: "Meteorite List List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Triangulation


> Not until the 1970's? Really? I understand that we now have great modern
> advantages for accurate triangulation, with sky-cams, radar data, and the
> like. And granted, even with all of this technology, strewn fields are
> often difficult to pinpoint today. But it's hard to believe that it took
> over 150 years after general scientific acceptance of the
> fireball/meteorite connection for somebody to start accurately tracking
> these suckers.
>
> Perhaps I could refine the question to help narrow the possible
> contenders. Who was the first person to recover meteorites from a
> witnessed fall based on triangulation calcualtions *without the benefit of
> anecdotal information or finds by local residents (apart from fireball
> reports)*?
>
> -Tocayo
> doug at dougross.net
>
>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Ross" <doug at dougross.net>
To: "Meteorite List List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Triangulation


> Not until the 1970's? Really? I understand that we now have great modern
> advantages for accurate triangulation, with sky-cams, radar data, and the
> like. And granted, even with all of this technology, strewn fields are
> often difficult to pinpoint today. But it's hard to believe that it took
> over 150 years after general scientific acceptance of the
> fireball/meteorite connection for somebody to start accurately tracking
> these suckers.
>
> Perhaps I could refine the question to help narrow the possible
> contenders. Who was the first person to recover meteorites from a
> witnessed fall based on triangulation calcualtions *without the benefit of
> anecdotal information or finds by local residents (apart from fireball
> reports)*?
>
> -Tocayo
> doug at dougross.net
Received on Mon 24 Oct 2011 09:08:17 AM PDT